Lady Lillian Montagu, president of the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues, died here today at the age of 90. Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
Author of more than a dozen books on Jewish subjects, she had been a Justice of the Peace and chairman of the Juvenile Court. She was honorary life president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, which she had also served as president. She had been a Lay Minister of the West Central Jewish Liberal Congregation since 1928 and president of the West Central Day Settlement.
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